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»Musik for mig er der, hvor jeg kan fordybe mig og udforske. Musik kan give energi og skabe ro. Jeg holder meget af at lytte til musik, både live og indspillet, og jeg elsker at lave musik, skrive og skabe, og mest af alt elsker jeg at synge. Musik for mig skaber forbindelse til andre mennesker og giver mulighed for at dele en oplevelse, og det er smukt!«

Josephine Philip er sanger, komponist og performer og en aktiv del af den danske musikscene i en række forskellige samarbejder. Hun var halvdelen af den dynamiske duo JaConfetti med Ane Trolle, grundlægger af kvinde-ska-bandet Favelachic, en del af pop-noir duoen Darkness Falls, og hun har skrevet musik og optrådt med Trentemøller. Josephine Philip er den ene halvdel af performanceduoen Philip | Schneider, som lige nu laver musik til danseforestillingen Planètes i Reims, Frankrig. Desuden driver hun sammen med Hannah Schneider plade/kunstselskabet Midnight Confessions, hvor hendes første soloalbum We Get Lost And Found udkom i 2022. Josephine er også radiovært på DR P8. Lige nu arbejder Josephine på sit andet studiealbum.

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»Music has been a healing balm for me.«

John William Grant is an American singer, musician, and songwriter holding both American and Icelandic citizenship. He first came to prominence as a co-founder, lead vocalist, pianist, and primary songwriter of the alternative rock band The Czars. After releasing six albums between 1994 and 2006, the band disbanded, and Grant withdrew from music for four years before embarking on a solo career.

He returned in April 2010 with a critically acclaimed debut album recorded in collaboration with Midlake. Queen of Denmark was named Album of the Year 2010 by Mojo magazine and was also selected as one of the ten best albums of 2010 by The Guardian’s music critics and writers.

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»In his music, composer Allan Gravgaard Madsen tries to create a better version of himself.« 

Allan Gravgaard Madsen is a Danish composer based in Copenhagen. His most recent works include Träume nicht and Nachtmusik. He tries to create a better version of himself in his music – where his personality tends to be restless, chatty and has an active inner life, his music is controlled, simple and merciless in its expression. He is the recipient of the Carl Nielsen & Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Hæderspris 2022.

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23.01.2022

Finnish Space Travel

Tomutonttu: »Hoshi«
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The Finnish multimedia artist Jan Anderzén has, with the album Hoshi, released under the solo moniker Tomutonttu, created a true little star. Not only because »hoshi« literally means »star« in Japanese, but above all due to the music itself. There is something cosmic, yet infinitely minute, about the sonic worlds Anderzén conjures—like a galaxy reflected in a puddle, or a space journey in a rocket carved from a hollow tree trunk. Synths emit busy, warm blips and bloops, while ultra-short vocal and instrumental samples create a recognizable blur. At once artificial and organic – soft, rounded, jagged, crackling.

Anderzén approaches sound with a playfulness I simply adore. His music is strange in an incredibly comforting way. It places me in a kind of colorful, trance-like state, only interrupted when, several times over the course of the album, I find myself smiling in delight at a particularly great sound. The synths on »Katse osuu sähköön!« The choral samples on »Kesä oli äkkiä ohi!« Milo Linnovaara’s flute on »Malta lausua ‘AH’!« And many more. Hoshi is an album packed with microscopic moments that together form a frayed, exploding, radiant, idiosyncratic whole—a stellar moment of just under 38 minutes.